Health care policy and long-term care.

Discusses changes in the age structure of the nation, the locus of care, the nature of disease, and the cost of care as factors that have led to recent proposed revisions in health-care policy. The need for increased future involvement of a rehabilitation philosophy as a response to the current crisis in policy is examined. (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)